Re: What's left over.

Linus Torvalds
2002-10-31T17:19:29Z

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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
>
> Sure, but why should they have to? What technical reason is there
> for not including it, Linus?

There are many:

- bloat kills:

My job is saying "NO!"

In other words: the question is never EVER "Why shouldn't it be
accepted?", but it is always "Why do we really not want to live
without this?"

- included features kill off (potentially better) projects.

There's a big "inertia" to features. It's often better to keep
features _off_ the standard kernel if they may end up being
further developed in totally new directions.

In particular when it comes to this project, I'm told about
"netdump", which doesn't try to dump to a disk, but over the net.
And quite frankly, my immediate reaction is to say "Hell, I
_never_ want the dump touching my disk, but over the network
sounds like a great idea".

To me this says "LKCD is stupid". Which means that I'm not going to apply
it, and I'm going to need some real reason to do so - ie being proven
wrong in the field.

(And don't get me wrong - I don't mind getting proven wrong. I change my
opinions the way some people change underwear. And I think that's ok).

> I completely don't understand your reasoning here.

Tough. That's YOUR problem.

Linus